NORWAY, Mich.—The University of Michigan recently announced winners of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards during the 2013 Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony at Rackham Auditorium.

The awards are funded by a bequest from Avery Hopwood, a 1905 graduate and successful Broadway playwright, and Jule Hopwood, his mother. Past winners include Arthur Miller, John Ciardi and Marge Piercy.

The Hopwood Awards are judged in two phases. A local screening committee comprising writers from the University and the surrounding community recommends manuscripts to be forwarded to national judges, who evaluate the writings and assign points to each work. The point totals indicate the level of financial reward to be given to a specific piece of writing.